Double miscalculation

Libby Parsons is happily married to her husband Nick. She goes with him for a walk on a small yacht. Morning awakening becomes nightmarish for her - Nick is not there, the whole deck and her shirt are smeared with blood as well as the knife she finds. The crew of the approached coast guard ship takes her under arrest. Libby does not understand where her husband was gone, and begins his search. Soon, Seattle police take her into custody on charges of murdering her husband. At trial, the prosecutor shattered the arguments of the defense by scrolling through the coast guard radio recording, where Nick called for help, "having received a wound from the knife of his wife on the yacht." The court is sentencing Libby to jail. Before being sent to prison, she asks her best friend, Angie, to look after her four-year-old son Mattie. During one of the calls, Libby hears the son's “Dad!” Whoop up, and Nick arrives and hangs up, and the conversation ends. For Libby, everything becomes clear: her husband Nick is alive, he laid a hand on the company's assets, received insurance for his life, and he set it up. Inmates, seeing her experiences, begin to sympathize with the “rich creature”, one of the prisoners, a former lawyer, helps her to achieve early release and declares to her that if her husband is alive, she can shoot him in broad daylight right in Times Square and according to the fifth amendment , they will not be able to condemn it.

Having received early release after 6 years of imprisonment, Libby must reside in a dormitory for the employee Travis Lehmann who is prematurely released under supervision. She escapes from under supervision and, having penetrated into the computer of a painting trader, finds who has sold the painting belonging to her husband. Then Libby finds Nick living on a grand scale in New Orleans under the name of Jonathan Devereaux. Angie died in a gas explosion, Mattie lives and studies in a closed elite school. Libby demands that Nick give her son in exchange for her silence. He makes an appointment with her at the city cemetery. A Mattie-like boy, bought by Devereaux, lures Libby in an ambush; Nick stuns her and locks her in the coffin in the shrine. Waking up, Libby shoots out the coffin locks and shoots out.

Lehman, who is investigating the case, also begins to suspect Devereaux and believes Libby. He comes to Devereaux and demands money from him for silence. Nick says Libby is no longer alive. She enters the office, Lehman takes out the tape recorder and scrolls through Nick’s voice recording, stating that this case will be a “gift for the prosecutor”. Libby repeats her request to give her a son. Nick grabs his gun, injures Lehmann, but Libby kills him. After that, she goes to the school where her son is studying, and after a long separation, finally meets with him.

• Tommy Lee Jones - Travis Lehman
• Ashley Judd - Elizabeth Parsons
• Bruce Greenwood - Nicholas Parsons / Simon Ryde / Jonathan Devereaux
• Benjamin Weir - Matty Parson
• Jay Brazo - Bobby Long
• John Maclaren - Rudy
• Ed Evanco - Warren
• Annabeth Gish - Angela Green
• Michelle Stafford - Suzanne Monroe
• Daniel Lapane - Computer Networking Expert
• Roma Maffia - Margaret

Reviews

The site Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a rather low rating of 26%: out of 82 critics, 61 gave the film a negative rating. The film received an average rating of 4.4 points on a ten-point scale ^[4] .

American lawyer and law professor Alan Dershovits criticized the film for misinterpreting the paragraph of the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution , saying that it was unacceptable to double or repeat responsibility for the same crime committed ( English Double Jeopardy . “These are two separate cases,” explains Dershowitz. - The main character was wrongly sentenced for the first time. Maybe she could be sued again. But the second time she committed or, at least, planned to commit a separate crime. Protection of the Fifth Amendment m the event does not enter into force. "Moreover, according to the decision of the Federal Court's" Larry Heath against Alabama "(1985), Georgia sentence can not prevent criminal proceedings in the Federal Court or in the state of Louisiana, even for an identical offense.

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• "Double Miscalculation" (English) on the Internet Movie Database
• "Double miscalculation" (English) on the site Rotten Tomatoes
• "Double miscalculation" (eng.) On the site allmovie  
• "Double miscalculation" on the site Video Guide. RU